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Fueled by Great Coffee & Real People

Coffee Crafted For You
Coffee Crafted for You, and You, and You

We aim to create an approachable environment where everyone has a seat at the table and the bean benefits all.

Love For The Bean
Love for the
Bean

With every brew, we pour our passion and expertise into designing a cup of coffee with your pleasure and tastes in mind.

A Global Coffee Community
A Global Coffee Community

All our coffee is purchased at or above fair trade price from transparent and sustainable brokers and farmers.

Average Coffee Roaster
Not Your Average
Coffee Roaster

As coffee nerds, we have a quirky outlook sourced from the early days of science fiction, fantasy, and lore.

“National Roaster of the Year”

Roast Magazine

"Back-to-Back Winner" of the Good Food Awards

Good Food Foundation

"The #1 Most Essential Chicago Coffee Shops

Eater Chicago

"One of the World's Nine Finest Coffees"

Saveur Magazine

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Project X

Project X

A one-of-a-kind roast, secretly created
for Tokyo latte legend, Hiroshi Sawada.

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The Coffee Café
That Started It All

Our Edgewater Café is a bustling, high-energy joint, renowned for intuitive, kind, and speedy service, stellar coffee drinks, local snacks, and unequivocally the freshest beans in town.

We’d even go as far as to say it’s one of the best coffee shops in Chicago, but we might be biased.

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